Sweet Like Harmony:Bjork

2004-05-21Photos from I-D Magazine.
2004-05-19 Give me some Sugar baby!
2004-05-17 I-D MAG Bjork spills some info!
2004-05-12 Collaborators.
2004-02-19 Photos from Brazil!
2004-01-29 Promoter, City Reach Debt Deal
2004-01-28 Mike Patton On Bjork
2004-01-25 Vogue Mag!
2004-01-13 Poland concert Broadcast
2004-01-13 bjork asks Alex

Currently the wallpaper
section is under
construction, it will be up very soon with the use of all the yummy new images of bjork.

Quiz & 2
AIM Icons
LJ Icons
Animated LJ
Chibis!
Wallpapers

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Tribute to Sugarcubes
Live Box
Show Studio
Bjork at Joe's Pub

the interviews will be placed here as they are coming. As many of you guys know there are several new interviews out now about medulla and such. ill be putting links up soon!

etoile-polaire.com/bjork/
Bjork.com
Bjork.it
sobjork.tk
Bjork.mctekk.com
Boogie Bjork
if u have a Bjork fansite you'd like me to put up drop me a line! Here.

As You guys can see i changed the face of the site! i hope u guys like it. I also changed the name of the site from whisper in water to sweet like harmony!Anyway, my medulla special is well underway but it is a bit empty at the moment but all is going as planned. Im working on some great new lovely wallpapers for you guys to enjoy and use...and you better use 'em!!!! teehee. ;)...As for the new album itself i got the album the first day it came out here (AUG 31) and have been listening to it ever since. For my review, i give it a 9 1/2 out of ten cuz i would have love some more beatboxing on some of those acapella tracks but sonnets/unrealities xi is the exception because it is the loveliest thing ever..my favourite song at the moment though is MOUTH'S CRADLE!...and you can follow these notes im singing up to the mouth's cradle.....Welcome & Enjoy the site!

Ms.B has been featured in many different Mags so far this year.Check out Bjork.com for the mag'04 section!

New video is going to be WHO IS IT? shot by Dawn Shadforth who also directed the "Special" video for Garbage!

Video Gallery
Here we have an extensive video gallery from Bjork's Sugarcube days all the way up to now... i will soon be adding the new Oceania video aswell once i get everthing going.
Avatars
Avatars can also be found here! we have some from interviews and videos, Beware: files are Big, it will take a while to load them. :/

Song interpretation
this is the place were we interpret one of Ms.B's songs each month. This month: Who is it?
Be a Doll and sign my Guestbook..;)
Mama Bjork-Preggy Ms.B Photos
Lyrics
Biography
Quotes

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Who is it? next single and Tv/radio appearances

I have to get some stuff together to finish this section but it is well under way. in the mean time Jocelyn just made this beautiful little special on the oceania performance at the olympics this past August. Enjoy she did a great job!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BJORK!

___________________10/2/04 REAL PREMIERE OF 'WHO IS IT?'
Who Is It' is set for a release on November 8th.

___________________9/26/04 ARTICLE IN ANOTHER MAG.
"There's this strange antique store in downtown Reykjavik called Frida Frænka (Aunfic Frida) where all of is girls have worked at some point. I think that's where I first met Shoppy maybe about ten years ago. Her real name is Hrafnhildur (which means war of the ravens) Amandóttir (daughter of eagle) How Viking is that? Shoplifter was what some stupid tourist once called her when they tried to pronounce her first name, and it just kind of stuck, As a visual artist she has exhiibited all around the world, especially in Manhattan where she lives a lot of the time, and her last show was a take on hair, which she has become a litre bit obsessed with, About a year ago I had a dream that I was crocheting her hair while she was weaving my hair at the same time, and we were doing a sort of dance around each other. We talked about the dream and about what we could do together, and finally we were able to work together to create my look for the new album. She totally got into the character of being a hairdresser, going to professional hair shops to get all the clips and things and even making silly conversation about holidays and stuff. She's just a really gorgeous life force who is fun to be around and you never know what she's going to do next "

2004 has been a busy year for Björk Gudmundsdóttir, even by her own hyper-prductive standards, It began how 2003 ended, with recording sessions for her latest, entirely a cappella album, Medúlla, in 12 locations in 6 countries with nine guest vocalists, two choirs and six different programmers, There were trips to Venice and Brazil "just being the girlfriend ' to artist Matthew Barney; video shoots with Gabriela Fridriksdottir and Spike Jonze, and the small matter of performing at the Athens Olympic opening ceremony , front of an estimated TV audience of four billion. But far from taking a well earned break, Bjork has decided, while she is feeling "creatively lubricated", to go straight back to work and complete another album before the year is out, "just to see what happens"

___________________9/25/04 WHO IS IT!?
Who Is It will become the next single off Medúlla. It will be released in October and will have 3 different formats. A new version of the song was made for the video and features the Bústaðakirkja bell choir.

The full title of the song is ofcourse Who Is It (carry my joy on the left, carry my pain on the right), and the tracks to be included on this release are:

CD1
01. Who Is It - Radio edit 
02. Oceania - featuring Kelis

CD2
01. Who Is It - c2n dattasette mix (by Lesser)
02. Who Is It - Fruit Machine Mix
03. Who Is It - Bell Choir Mix (featuring the Bústaðakirkja bell choir)

DVD SINGLE
01. Who Is It - Choir Mix
02. Mouth’s Cradle - Cortejo Affro/ Ilé Aiyé Mix (Production Co-ordination & Assistance by Arto Lindsay)
03. Who Is It - Video (Directed by Dawn Shadforth)

___________________9/25/04 BREEZEBLOCK
björk will be on the breezeblock october 18th for an interview & session!

___________________9/23/04 TV APPEARANCE
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross 
BBC ONE 
Friday 8 October. Jonathan chats to Graham Norton, Bjork and Duran Duran. Bjork also sings her new single, Who is It; Duran Duran perform their new single (Reach up for the) Sunrise as well as a classic past hit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/guests/index.shtml

__________________9/17/04
RELEASE DATES FOR UPCOMING SINGLES!
_______10/25 
Who Is It cds1 - 446TP7CD/5000008001929 
Who Is It cds2 - 446TP7CDL/5000098001892

_______01/03 
Triumph Of A Heart cds1 - 447TP7CD/5000098001984 
Triumph Of A Heart cds2 - 447TP7CDL/5000008001936

THE INNER OR DEEP PART OF PLANT OR ANIMAL STRUCTURE
got to Bjork.com to see the lovely special and stills of the Medulla DVD!

NEW ARTICLE AND SCAN FROM ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY!
Scan and Article brought to u by Jocelyn:

Björk and Lars von Trier didn't really see eye to blind eye when he directed her in ''Dancer in the Dark'' a few years back, but the mercurial singer might have absorbed more of the contrary filmmaker's ethos than she realized. With his Dogma 95 ''Vow of Chastity,'' von Trier dismissed supposed artificialities like sets, props, and scoring. In the similarly austere yet extravagant Medúlla, Björk ditches bourgeois frills like strings and drum machines in favor of, exclusively, the human voice. Well, near exclusively; perhaps still wary of complete dogmatism, she allows cameos on a few tracks by the odd bass synthesizer, piano, or (now she's getting carried away!) gong. But aside from those passing instrumental cheats, Björk is taking a big, fat Gregorian chance on full-on a cappella.

Historians among us might wonder if there's a good reason no major rock figure has attempted an all-vocal album since Todd Rundgren's A Cappella in 1985, a moderately amusing if literally long-winded experiment in vocally mimicking real instruments. There's a little of that sort of ear trickery in Medúlla; five numbers utilize Rahzel, formerly of the Roots, as a human beat box, and one has frequent Philip Glass vocalist Gregory Purnhagen credited as a ''human trombone.'' But mostly, these voices are meant to sound like voices, whether Björk is wailing against the Icelandic Choir's wall of sound or madly multitracking herself like The Matrix's Agent Smith. Besides all these mass exhalations, there's a lot of flesh, bone, and blood in the lyrics, too (''Smooth soft red velvety lungs are pushing a network of oxygen joyfully through a nose...''). She's like a convert to nudism, suddenly convinced that ''gear'' is the equivalent of a heavy coat in May. Beware: Her evangelistic zeal is so strong, she'll soon have you shunning electronica and skipping absentmindedly through the park in your birthday suit too.

Björk began recording the album with those darned old instruments before her au naturel epiphany, but only a couple of tracks belie their origins as conventional pop songs. Most easily digestible is the peppy, nearly hip-hop-flavored ''Triumph of a Heart'' tucked away at disc's end, as if a reward for making it through the more challenging passages. Leading up to that, you get a few sinister-sounding examinations of human behavior whose growling, gulping, or moaning will alienate some ears. ''Submarine'' has guest Robert Wyatt warbling for help in queasy falsetto, sounding like Carl Wilson trapped under ice. Her strikingly beautiful Olympics song, ''Oceania,'' is more rapturously aquatic, the computer-enhanced choir behind Björk suggesting a cosmic harem of pleased dolphins. Here she imagines herself as the sea itself, proud of all the belegged creatures she's spit out onto land over the last hundred million years. It's the nearest evolutionists have come to having their own gospel tune.

Björk has said a guiding rule for the album was ''not to sound like the Manhattan Transfer or Bobby McFerrin.'' Well, duh -- but if that was hardly a danger, there was every likelihood that the album's synths-for-larynxes quid pro quo would be remembered as a stunt, at best, instead of one of her best efforts. To anyone approaching Medúlla with that apprehension, we offer these four words: Don't worry, be happy. (Rating: A)